Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Top five multi-platform mobile app development tools

We all know how bothersome
multi-platform mobile app formatting can get. Each platform is unique
and provide different features, capabilities and behavior. But then,
multi-platform apps are truly “in” today, so you need to find
resolutions to develop the best cross-formatted apps, without wasting
up all your resources on developing for just a couple of platforms at
one time.

Luckily, there are some really great
multi-platform developer tools in the market nowadays; using those
one can easily accomplish this aim. Here is a list of the top 5
development tools for cross-formatting mobile applications.

RhoMobile
- Offers Rhodes, which is an open-source framework based on Ruby.
This authorizes the developer to create native apps, spanning over a
stunning range of OS’ and smartphones. The OS’ include Android,
Windows
Mobile, Symbian, iPhone
and RIM,
which pretty much covers it all. The framework supplied by RhoMobile
is such that one only need to code once. This code can be used to
build apps for most of the major smartphones. Native apps are great
for working with available hardware, so your job gets done with ease,
speed and accuracy.

RhoMobile
also offers developers RhoHub, which is a hosted development
environment, and RhoSync,
which can be employed as a standalone server to keep all the app data
current on the users’ handhelds.

PhoneGap
- This platform utilizes standard web development languages such as
HTML and JavaScript. PhoneGap allows the developer to work with
device hardware features such as accelerometer, GPS/location, camera,
sound and much more. PhoneGap additionally offers an Adobe AIR app
and also online training courses to help the developer access native
API’s and build mobile apps on its own platform.

Appcelerator-
The Titanium Development Platform from Appcelerator,
which incidentally has a formidable fan following in Twitter, ads the
development of native mobile, tablet and desktop apps via web
programming languages such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.
It now powers over a 1,000 native apps per month.

The
best thing about Titanium is that if gives users easy access to over
300 APIs and location information. Additionally, Appcelerator also
offers customizable metrics for actions and events. Apps can be
entirely hardware-based and all app data can be stored either in the
cloud or on the device.

MoSync-
MoSync yet another FOSS multi-platform mobile app dev SDK tool, is
based on standard web programming. This SDK offers the developer
integrated compilers, libraries, runtimes, device profiles and other
useful tools. While support for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python and
such other languages is planned, MoSync now includes Eclipse-based
IDE for C/C++ programming. MoSync offers support for several types of
OS’, including Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, Moblin and even a
mobile Linux distro. Support for the iPhone OS and BlackBerry will be
coming soon, after the release of MoSync 2.4.

WidgetPad
– WidgetPad is a collaborative, open-source environment for
development of smartphone apps. This program makes useof standard web
technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Included in this
platform are source code editing, collaboration, debugging, project
management, versioning and distribution. WidgetPad, which is now in
private beta, can be used to create apps for the iOS, Android OS and
WebOS.

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